FACTS ABOUT KISII PEOPLE #NAOMIDANBELLO #DANLOK#KENYAHISTORY

The Abagusii (also known as Kisii, Mkisii or Wakisii in Swahili, or Gusii) is an East African ethnic group that largely originate from the Pre-Bantu Agropastoralist inhabitants of present-day Kenya particularly former Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces of Kenya of the same stock as the ancestors of the modern Nilotes, Omotics and Cushites as well as the ancient East African hunter/gatherers similar to Ogiek. However, a minority of the Abagusii are believed to have been assimilated from the Luhya and Olusuba speaking Suba people (Kenya) that are believed to have migrated from the West of Lake Victoria that is present-day Buganda and Busoga. The Abagusii are closely related to the Maasai, Kipsigis, Abakuria, and Ameru of Kenya. They also have close linguistic relationship with Ngurimi, Rangi, Mbugwe, Simbiti,[2] Zanaki and Ikoma people. However, a lot of evidence from studies of East African Bantu languages[2] and anthropology suggests that the Abagusii and the mentioned related tribes emerged from the Pre-Bantu Agropastoralists of East Africa believed to have come from the North of Mt. Elgon. The Abagusii traditionally/natively inhabit Kisii County (formerly Kisii District) and Nyamira County of former Nyanza Province of Kenya as well as parts of Kericho County and Bomet County of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya. The Abagusii are also found in other regions of geographical Western Kenya including former Nyanza Province such as Homa Bay County, and the rest of Luo-Nyanza as well as the rest of Kenya through recent migrations in post-colonial Kenya. There is also a significant diaspora population of Abagusii in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa among other countries within and outside Africa. The Abagusii speak Ekegusii language which is classified together with the Great Lakes Bantu languages. However, the inclusion of Abagusii in the Bantu language group is a subject of debate given that studies on East African Bantu languages have found the Ekegusii together with Kuria, Simbiti, Ngurimi, Rangi and Mbugwe languages to be far distinct from the typical Bantu in terms of structure and tense aspect.[2] Mogusii is culturally identified as their founder and patriarch. The Abagusii are however, unrelated to the Kisi people of Malawi and the Kissi people of West Africa, other than the three very distinct communities having similar sounding tribal names. The traditional occupation of Abagusii in pre-colonial Kenya included hunting and gathering, pastoralism/herding and cereal (millet, sorghum), fruit (pumpkin) and root crop farming forms of Agriculture with pastoralism being the dominant occupation of Abagusii in pre-colonial Kenya. Today the Abagusii have adopted other forms of agriculture through interaction with the European colonists that introduced new crops and new cultivation methods to Gusiiland and Kenya as a whole with the same applying to the other African countries/communities. Some of these factors have ensured farming to be the most dominant economic activity among Abagusii as opposed to pre-colonial Kenya where they were pre-dominantly pastoralists and hunters and gatherers.

[queenimmah]

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[surejemochagwira]

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[maryotiso]

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[ayee]

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[missoderochannel]

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[marylexshow]

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[agathassecrects]

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[igesavictor]

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[iamaggie]

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[beyondrose]

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[abdullahyusuf]

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[zamzziwa]

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[ijakaa_evans]

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[accramasuu_tv]

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